The Fifth Element
Chapter 73: The Fire in my Heart

[Author's Note]

Sorry for the extended Hiatus guys. But I'm back now! So keep those reviews coming! The chapters are gonna keep on rolling!

Finn and the Train stood side by side. Finn held his metal pipe down, letting it graze the floor. The Train slung Lemonjon's colossal, building sized arm over his shoulder, with apparent ease. Both were glowing bright red, and gushing steam from every pore

Lemonjon roared, and used his one remaining arm to crawl on his belly, his teeth chomping up and down

"BATTLE!" The Train screamed, as he leapt into the air and flipped, swinging Lemonjon's severed arm, and bringing it crashing down on Lemonjon's head. Lemonjon head-butted the ground, and his head sprung back up, his noses broken and gushing with strawberry jam.

Lemonjon roared and raised his fiat. He slammed it on the floor, trying to crush Finn. Finn rolled out of the way, after which Lemonjon made his palm flat and slid it towards Finn, trying to swat him. Finn balled up his fist and held his pipe firmly. He swung the pipe, batting against Lemonjon's palm, forcing it back against the wall of the wrecked castle.

Lemonjon roared and tried to slam his fist against Finn again. The Train swung Lemonjon's severed arm and bashed Lemonjon's arm away. The candy titan simply roared like an animal. The Train swung around and batted Lemonjon in the face, with such a tremendous force that Lemonjon was batted back into the lake of boiling outside the shattered castle walls, and The Train unleashed a mushroom cloud of steam. Finn roared and ran after the toppling candy giant. The Train let out a steam whistle and ran after Finn, overcome with berserk energy.

XMO, the little robot, who had seen this situation before, hoped onto The Train's back, and pressed a button her belly. The Train's favourite music began to play.

Up on the top of the ruined and crumbling tower, Phoebe, the Princess of Flame, slowly stirred into the realm of consciousness. The first thing she noticed was the green wizard woman, her wizard hands underneath Phoebe's royal armpits. She was trying, and utterly failing, to move her.

"Unhand me!" Phoebe snapped. The wizard girl let out a yelp and dropped Phoebe, causing the Flame Princess to fall on her back, her belly sticking up into the air. Most unladylike.

"Ugh...what hit me..."

Both girls turned their heads to see Stag finally wake up. He was rubbing his head, trying to stifle the pain.

Huntress Wizard put the Flame Princess down, and pointed to the ground. It was an immense cloud of steam, with Lemonjon's various body parts flying out of the cloud into visibility.

"THAT." Huntress Wizard grunted.

"BEEN' SPENDIN' MOST MY LIFE; LIVIN' IN THE GANGSTA'S PARADISE!"

The music blared, even drowning out Lemonjon's roars. He had decided that batting at the two boys wasn't getting him anywhere, so he tried to get back onto his feet, or at least sit upright, but the two boys were expertly batting him around. His candy face had been cracked and shattered beyond recognition. His toes were tipping in oil lake, and he was hunched on all fours, his little stub of an arm just dangling. He looked up. Finn and the Train were still steaming away, looking manic.

"BEEN' SPENDIN' MOST MY LIFE; LIVIN' IN THE GANGSTA'S PARADISE!"

"Dude, let's do a Crazyball! Do you remember the Crazyball?" The Train chuckled as he looked at Finn. Finn looked up at The Train, jittering and drooling with excitement.

"NO! BUT BY GLOB I WANNA LEARN! SHOW ME THE CRAZYBALL!" Finn screamed.

"CHUCK ME AT HIM!" The Train roared.

Finn grabbed the Train's open palm, and spun with all his might. It created a mini-tornado of steam, and the Train was jettisoned straight towards Lemonjon's face.

"WE'RE SPENDIN' MOST OUR LIVES; LIVIN' IN THE GANGSTA'S PARADISE!"

The Train collided fist-first with Lemonjon's face, creating a deafening smash. Lemonjon shrieked in pain as he was lifted off of his knees, and fell ass-backwards into the oil lake. The Train landed heavily, creating a small crater as he landed.

The Steam around Finn and the Train began to taper off, but Lemonjon rose out of the oil. His face had a sickening crack running down it, and the arm Train had ripped off was damaged beyond repair, but Lemonjon was on his knees, slowly pulling himself upright. He looked around. The fire army had began to reassemble, and were surrounding the lake, their fists glowing with red hot flames. Plus, those two little monsters were stilling steaming away. There was no other option really.

Lemonjon slowly sank into the lake, disappearing beneath the inky black liquid.

Everybody just sort of...stared.

It had taken about 5 hours before everybody found their bearings. The Flame King had commanded his people to search the lake for the Candy Giant, but they found nothing. But the entirity of the Fire Kingdom quickly got busy in rebuilding Corona City.

With the Castle in ruins, the Flame King had Finn and the Others gather in the middle of the wreckage. He had questions.

"TELL ME, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD RAIDERS TRY SO HARD TO DEFEND MY HOME? AND FOR THAT MATTER, RESCUE MY DAUGHTER?"

"Sir, we're not raiders." Finn said. "My name is Finn, Knight of the Ice Kingdom. We come with a message from the Ice King."

"It's a message of peace." Huntress Wizard said. She suddenly blushed as the magnitude of who she was talking to suddenly hit her, and she blushed profusely, and quickly did a very ladylike and very out-of-character curtsy. "Your highness."

"My King seeks to form an alliance with you, and combine our raiding parties on Slime and Candy. As well as hopefully trade Water and Oil fairly." Finn explained. The Flame King was positively jubilant at this news, but tried his hardest to not show it.

"This couldn't have come at a better time Father." The Flame Princess piped up. "The kingdom is starving from our failed raid to the Candy Kingdom, and we need Metal to rebuild Corona City's vents. An alliance would truely be a godsend."

"WELL PUT, MY DAUGHTER. YOU ARE BLOSSOMING INTO A WISE RULER INDEED." The Flame King beamed. "VERY WELL, KNIGHT. RETURN TO YOUR KING, AND TELL HIM THAT HIS OFFER HAS BEEN ACCEPTED WITH FULL HONOURS!"

The Flame King then turned to his daughter.

"MY DAUGHTER, I WISH FOR YOU TO ACCOMPANY THESE KNIGHTS BACK TO THEIR KINGDOM, AND BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE ICE KING. BE SURE OUR KINGDOM IS A PARTNER, NOT A PEON!"

"I shall do my best father." Flame Princess glowed in response. She turned to Finn, Huntress Wizard, and Stag. "So it appears you will be my companions for the foreseeable future."

The Three beamed. They certainly didn't mind.

"Thank you for your time, oh powerful Flame King." Finn bowed. "I shall return to my king at once. Come on everybody, let's head back."

"Wait, one last thing." Said Phoebe. "Where's the Train?"

On the outskirts of Oil Town, a hulking red figure, and a little robot, stood on a lava dune, staring back at the ruined Corona City.

"Train. Aren't you going to talk to your friends." XMO asked. Train just grinned and slowly shook his head.

"They've changed little buddy. I used to know them, but none of us know eachother anymore." The Train sighed. "Besides..."

The Train put XMO on his shoulder, and turned, sliding off the lava dune and beginning his long walk into the distance.

"They don't need me anymore...They're better off without me..."